Author: Staff Writer

STREAM GETS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Stream has reached an agreement with leading Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset for the digital TV platform to acquire key Italian pay-TV rights to next season’s Champions League football tournament. The...

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

The ITU did its best to please every last delegate at its World Radiocommunication Conference, writes Chris Bulloch The International Telecommunication Union held its first-ever World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) outside...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 145 degreesE: Gorizont-21 & 33 D – The last of the Gorizont...

ARD GOES INTERACTIVE FOR EURO 2000

German public broadcaster ARD is to extend the interactive content on its free-to-air digital package. The Euro 2000 football competition will allow the approximate 70,000 households equipped with OpenTV digital...

TV CELEBRITY PLANS NEW CHANNEL

British TV personality Noel Edmonds has revealed plans to launch a series of new channels kicking of with a business-to-business channel Biz4BizTV.com‚ that will launch in about a year. Edmonds...

RAI SETS UP NEW MEDIA UNIT

Italian public broadcaster RAI has established a holding company that will combine its Internet and satellite TV units (Interspace 694). Announcing the initiative on May 8, RAI president Roberto Zaccaria...

NEWS BYTES...

RTL Television continued to be Germany’s most watched television channel in May. According to the latest GfK figures, the Cologne-based channel reached an average audience market share among viewers of...